Means for issuing directions concerning care of motor-vehicles.



. G. S. 'VAN VOORHIS, MEANS FOR' Issu-ING MRBCTIUNS CONCERNING CARB 0F M0703 WHCLES.

APPLICATION IILBD JAN.A25, 1.913.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

strATEsrATEN-r *I enonenavanvoonn miiiit'ooxztiisua' u .assmmm liu-'ns ron tssuxiiti.mais virionsV Cenci-:annie char. `or Amvronf vaincue To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, 'Grondin' S. VAN Vooii- 'm8, a citizen of .the United States, residing Means for Issui Directions' Concerning lowing l'is a specificatio My resent invention 4hasffor its 'object to. provi e. means'for giving directions ton the user .or operator ofa motor car concerning the Careof the same in 'such a manner as to insure eve thing bein'g done atsuitable intervals an in proper order, and nothing overlooked. 7 vAs is well known to the`v users of motor cars, these require attention in` their various parts, entirely according to mileage. 'For example, allparts of the running gear `need go oiling or reasecupsscrewing down with every hun `red miles; the transmission and differential need refilling at the end of every five hiiiidred'miles or thereabout,v the gaso- 'lene' tankafter mileage depending on the capacity. 'of thetank, and so on through the longlist of things to be done about a car, includin'gclea-ningout carbon and grinding *valves, washing out 'oil from crank case, testingtires, etc., which are 'so essential but 'so liable to vbe overlooked or delayed.

My inventionconsists broadly in provid-` ing means for issuing a, printed strip of directions. which at the close ofthe day .or

A be removed and its'directions follQWOd,.' t us'. insuring that ev i' An embodiment of inventionisillus- 5 erably o f substantially cylindrical shape and' is adapted to receive a roll of paper of tape -speaagan oi tenen' raten; Appunti, aiea January as. isis. Vv aerial saludar.

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'The invention also includes 'the' novel fea# l' tures of construction and arrangement andy 40f-combin'ation of parte hereinafter described and particularly ,defined by thev appended.

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orm,"indicated at 3,' upon-which thedrec-I tions referred to are printed aeatm, access to the case for insertioiiof rollbeingpermitted by a' door or coverfl hinged' at l".

I n'fordertodraw thepaper from the roll at. al inte commensurate with theL travel or mileage of the automobile, I provide-a pair of feedrolls 4 and 5,. one of which is driven by the ordinary flexible' shaft used to operate the speedometer or odometer. In thedraw 'ing' I have illustratedthe roll 4 as driven through a worm and worm wheel connection from the shaft or spindle, which at one .end is adapted for connection 'with the iiexi ble 'shaft .indicated Vait- 7 'and at the other end. may be ladapted for attachment to the speedometer as at 8, 'Thetape will ofcourse be printed .with suitable directions and Vin proper' order according tothe make ofcar for which it is designed and -at the end of a Dsuitable distance, say at the .end of a hundred mile run, the operator will remove .the por- -tion of .thetape which has beenfed bythe rolls .and proceed to care .for the machine according to the directions rinted thereon,

checking oil' each thingy-as one, and, when through, filing .the stripl away for record, it

" desired.

In ordler to facilitfatellthe removal of the projecte ortio'n o te stri a Severin knife may p g order to' support the paper roll in proper in the case and in'siich manner as to permit the 'paper being drawn therefrom by the feed rolls, thel paper will -be preferably mounted. on '1a spool 10 at one 'end' of the caseprovided with a fixed pin 11 for engaging the corresililorniingl of the e spoo ing sup- .provided as indicated at 9. In.

ported'bya spring pressed pin 12 provided von theontside of the case with a handle13 by which it may be withdrawn for the re paperwill befirst inserted in the bite of Alnovttl and'insertion ofthe s ool.` When a fresh roll is being inserted -t `e end of the ion the feed rolls 4 and `5 andthe lower roll. 5

turned by the handle 5un'til thepaper isgripped between the roll's'and thereafter the paper rollinserted inl place and the case -closedwhen ,thedevice is ready for use.

' In addition 'to havin the directionsfor the care of--the car prin onthe tape, it may alsohave, the mileage'printed thereon so that each s't'ri or part Vof the tape removedat. the. end="o the trip will serve as a trip indicatori iilj; device as above described, is of great wine to the operator of pleasure cars as i'c removes all chance offailure to care for the various parts of the car at. the proper time, but it .is of specie value in connection with business wagons, taxicabs, trucks, etc., Where the. driver seldom, if ever, takes care of the cir-r. In such cases all the driver would have to do in turning the car into the garage is to hand the strip of directions to the garage foreman.

Having thus described my invention what i'. claim is n comgiimtion a suitable case, a roil of paper or tape therein having printed thereon sama-tim directlons for the care of a motor vehicle, feed rolls driven by the movement of the vehicle for delivering said tape from.

GEORGE S. VAN VOORHLS.

Vitnesses:

MABEL F. GRANT, ALICE M. GARVIN. 

